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  1. Otto von Ballpark
    Brian Dozier's Glorious Smile:
  2. Otto von Ballpark
    Any 40-man roster player who is injured in the offseason or before they are optioned in spring training has to go on the MLB DL IL. Even if they finished the previous season in the minors. That's part of the reason why some 40-man roster guys get optioned relatively early in spring training.
  3. Otto von Ballpark
    The more I think about the Saturday start idea, the more I like it. You could have started Berrios and a AAA guy last Saturday, and pushed everyone else back a day, meaning Gibson would get a start against Houston instead of Stewart. Or, perhaps better, start a AAA guy Saturday and use Perez out of the pen. Gives you more flexibility than just adding Romero to the pen for the day (Perez could come in earlier and/or pitch longer if necessary), and it lets you keep everyone else on the same schedule, just with Perez starting last night in Houston instead of Stewart.
  4. Otto von Ballpark
    Berrios could have started Saturday, same as he actually did.
  5. Otto von Ballpark
    Nothing is guaranteed, of course, but Stewart's odds of beating Baltimore were higher than beating Houston, and Gibson's odds of beating Houston were higher than Stewart's too.
  6. Otto von Ballpark
    You know, your second sentence reads a little like a justification for not trying... I won't go as far as to say they weren't trying, but I do see some questionable priorities if they are really trying their best to win. Beginning with, not starting a AAA pitcher in Baltimore, possibly because they wanted to give Stewart a hometown start... starting the ice cold Marwin all 3 games in his old town... benching the warm Buxton and Schoop the game before an off day for no discernable reason (I hope they were not simply trying to "protect" Buxton against a good pitcher as you implied). Oh, and working in a start for bench player Adrianza... after he just started consecutive games 2 days ago.
  7. Otto von Ballpark
    They could have started a AAA pitcher against Baltimore on Saturday instead.
  8. Otto von Ballpark
    Hate to break it to you, kid, but you've been optioned to the minor league forum.
  9. Otto von Ballpark
    Have to keep playing him, though, to show Houston what they're missing!
  10. Otto von Ballpark
    Buxton's debut was actually against Texas, batting 9th vs Nick Martinez. He didn't face Verlander in his first season: https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.fcgi?id=buxtoby01&t=b&year=2015 Career he is 2-for-10 vs Verlander, with 5 K's and a HR. Although his first 4 PAs were K's, so he has fared better since then: https://www.baseball-reference.com/play-index/batter_vs_pitcher.cgi?batter=buxtoby01&pitcher=verlaju01 Found the game you were likely referring to. 0-3, 3 K's versus Verlander, although Buxton was batting ninth and it was his 99th career game: https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/DET/DET201607200.shtml
  11. Otto von Ballpark
    I didn't mean to imply I am a "Gio booster". But if we are going to carry 13 pitchers and not acquire a good reliever, it may have been better than the status quo.
  12. Otto von Ballpark
    2018 was poor? It was league average over 32 starts. He's not as good as he once was, obviously, but it was a stretch to bring up one bad AAA start as meaningful evidence of his decline at this point. Even if you don't think he's appreciably better than our 5 starters right now, he's probably not appreciably worse than a few of them either, and there's still probably a case that the Twins could have been better off grabbing him and stashing someone in the pen for a bit. Our immediate SP depth doesn't look too appealing at the moment.
  13. Otto von Ballpark
    Gio signed with the Brewers today for $2 mil plus $2 mil in incentives: https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2019/04/brewers-to-sign-gio-gonzalez.html
  14. Otto von Ballpark
    Those 26 pitches represent Magill's longest outing of the year so far, he's had only 1 day rest since then, and he's only about a week removed from a month-long absence as well. I'm guessing they don't want him to top 26 pitches in his MLB season debut tonight, and asking him for 40 pitches tonight would probably be out of the question. I didn't think it would be a controversial take to suggest that Romero is a fresher / more stretched-out option for length tonight. Yes, there's a chance he might not be very efficient or effective vs the Astros lineup, but I doubt Magill would be either, under the present circumstances.
  15. Otto von Ballpark
    Sure, but it's still probably longer than Magill could give us tonight.
  16. Otto von Ballpark
    I don't even think it's that complicated, in this situation. They really need someone capable of pitching length tonight, Wednesday night, to back up Stewart. Romero hasn't pitched since Saturday, and has had a full healthy spring/season so far. He could almost certainly throw 30-40 pitches tonight, if necessary. Magill had an abbreviated spring, and just threw a season-high 26 pitches (2 innings) for Rochester on Monday night. They probably don't want to push him beyond that in his MLB season debut. They might switch out Magill for Romero or Harper as soon as Friday.
  17. Otto von Ballpark
    FWIW, those were all in that one crazy 15 HR game. Outside of that, Romero has only allowed 1 hit in 7 innings, zero runs, 2 BB (and 2 HBP), 9 K's. Still a work in progress, as evidenced by his season debut in Baltimore. He might get a chance tonight to make a case against the Astros -- I suspect either Romero or Harper could get optioned to make room for Magill as early as Friday.
  18. Otto von Ballpark
    If Magill just threw 2 innings on Monday night, they probably don't want to count on him for long relief on Wednesday night. Particularly just coming off the DL. I suspect Romero might go back down tomorrow to activate Magill. (Or Harper could be optioned instead.)
  19. Otto von Ballpark
    Yes. Likely Duffey goes down today, Stewart comes up for the start. Then Stewart goes down tomorrow, and Magill is activated.
  20. Otto von Ballpark
    Yes, both are on 4+ days of rest.
  21. Otto von Ballpark
    Eduardo Escobar has back-to-back 3-hit games, to raise his season line to .270/.350/.427 for Arizona.
  22. Otto von Ballpark
    Danny Santana is off to a hot start for Texas: .962 OPS through 9 games, plus 4 steals. Exclusively playing 2B so far.
  23. Otto von Ballpark
    Quick, let's fabricate a "23 And Me" report for "Korea" Kimbrel, and deliver it to 1 Twins Way!
  24. Otto von Ballpark
    Actually, I think Seattle might be on that pace (at least by OPS+). So maybe we'll only finish with the second best lineup in history.
  25. Otto von Ballpark
    I don't know why you think I am ignoring it -- I've said as much several times. And it follows that guaranteeing a fickle reliever $10-20 mil is riskier than $2.9 mil, giving you less margin for error, less flexibility, etc. These are real costs to the Pressly deal, even if you wanted to turn around and sign a FA replacement. And it's not clear yet to me that Alcala was worth those costs.
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